Talk:Piano Sonata No. 22 (Beethoven)

Neutrality
While I am not expert in the topic and therefore have not attempted to edit the material, it seems crystal clear to me that the description of the sonata under discussion is intensely opinionated and non-neutral. It is one thing to quote a cited source's opinion, but for the entire article to be someone's opinion, particularly a negative opinion, is outside the guidelines for WP. Monkeyzpop (talk) 23:06, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with your point, and I don't think it's the best article now. But to be fair, it's not a negative opinion; it is the opinion that the Sonata is an intentional parody. Tb (talk) 18:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

November 12, 2009, I find a more balanced or less ironic view by Patrick Rucker,in Fanfare Mar/Apr 2009 :

"The F-Major Sonata, No. 22, is relatively neglected. Pianists have a hard time making the disparate expressions of the first movement coexist, much less coherently flow. It opens with a diffident, ingratiating minuet-like thematic group that keeps getting rudely interrupted by robust and overly rambunctious passagework. In this performance, the two elements become a seesaw of alternating affects, artfully and naturally playing off one another in a subtle symbiosis that provides a prelude to the main event, the concluding Allegretto. Swirls and eddies of incessant 16th notes breeze past, stumbling on the occasional sforzando, but never losing momentum. The enigmatic cloak falls away, and op. 54 radiates all its quirky inventiveness." I am not familiar with the methodology of adding something like this;i hope someone will be able to use it properly and educate me in contributing to wikipedia as well.Samiam70002 (talk) 17:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC)Samiam70002

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Piano Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 13:16, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Note the date of the foregoing notice. The discussion, now long closed, concerned whether to move the sonata articles to new titles incorporating opus numbers. The conclusion was not to do so. Drhoehl (talk) 23:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)